The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit

特朗普政府在《纽约时报》版权诉讼案中支持 OpenAI

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. 特朗普政府已介入《纽约时报》针对 OpenAI 的版权诉讼，并为该人工智能实验室进行了辩护。

The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that OpenAI unlawfully trained its AI systems on articles from The New York Times and seeks to recoup “billions of dollars” in damages from both Microsoft and OpenAI. This week, the Trump administration filed a statement of interest in the case, supporting OpenAI’s argument that it’s fair use to train an AI model on copyrighted text. 这起具有里程碑意义的诉讼于 2023 年 12 月提起，指控 OpenAI 非法利用《纽约时报》的文章训练其人工智能系统，并寻求向微软和 OpenAI 追讨“数十亿美元”的赔偿。本周，特朗普政府向法院提交了一份利益声明，支持 OpenAI 关于利用受版权保护的文本训练人工智能模型属于“合理使用”的论点。

“The New York Times seeks to narrow fair-use doctrine to exclude the training of OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs),” US attorneys wrote in the statement. “That result would be inconsistent with basic copyright law principles and severely hamper ‘the Progress of Science and useful Arts.’” The attorneys went on to write that “LLMs are already helping researchers across fields achieve major breakthroughs” and that “constraining LLM development under a misunderstanding of fair use doctrine would thwart such creative and scientific progress while hindering American prosperity and economic mobility.” 美国律师在声明中写道：“《纽约时报》试图缩小合理使用原则的范围，以排除 OpenAI 大型语言模型（LLM）的训练。这一结果将与基本的版权法原则不符，并严重阻碍‘科学和实用艺术的进步’。”律师们进一步写道，“大语言模型已经在帮助各领域的科研人员取得重大突破”，并且“基于对合理使用原则的误解来限制大语言模型的发展，将阻碍这种创造性和科学性的进步，同时也会妨碍美国的繁荣和经济流动性。”

The Trump administration has leaned heavily on statements of interest in private litigation, which one official has called “incredibly” successful at advancing its policy aims. It’s argued previously that AI training should count as fair use, making the case in its National AI Legislative Framework. Trump also holds a personal animus toward the Times, against which he is currently pursuing a defamation suit. 特朗普政府在私人诉讼中频繁使用利益声明，一位官员称这种做法在推进其政策目标方面“极其”成功。政府此前曾在其《国家人工智能立法框架》中提出，人工智能训练应被视为合理使用。此外，特朗普本人对《纽约时报》怀有个人敌意，目前正对其提起诽谤诉讼。

The Times case could set precedent for other media outlets frustrated over AI systems training on their work. Copyright disagreements between media outlets and AI labs have intensified in recent years, including lawsuits from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Chicago Tribune, and New York Daily News. In a milestone 2025 decision, a judge found Anthropic could legally train its models on lawfully purchased books, but that it could still be held liable for piracy, resulting in a $1.5 billion settlement with authors. 《纽约时报》一案可能会为其他对人工智能系统利用其作品进行训练感到不满的媒体机构树立先例。近年来，媒体机构与人工智能实验室之间的版权纠纷愈演愈烈，其中包括来自调查报道中心、《芝加哥论坛报》和《纽约每日新闻》的诉讼。在 2025 年的一项里程碑式裁决中，法官认定 Anthropic 可以合法地利用合法购买的书籍训练其模型，但仍可能因盗版行为承担责任，最终导致其与作者达成 15 亿美元的和解。

At the same time, dozens of media outlets have inked licensing deals with OpenAI, including The Associated Press, Axel Springer and Vox Media. In 2025, The New York Times entered into a licensing deal with Amazon allowing its editorial content, including news articles and recipes, to appear in Amazon’s generative AI tools. 与此同时，数十家媒体机构已与 OpenAI 签署了许可协议，包括美联社、阿克塞尔·斯普林格（Axel Springer）和 Vox Media。2025 年，《纽约时报》与亚马逊达成了一项许可协议，允许其编辑内容（包括新闻文章和食谱）出现在亚马逊的生成式人工智能工具中。

“The fair-use inquiry hinges on the specific facts and uses at issue in each case,” the US attorneys wrote in the statement. “But it would be problematic — and legally incorrect — to impose broad copyright liability that would generally render training of AI models impermissible without licensing. LLM training is ‘consistent with that creative ‘progress’ that is the basic constitutional objective of copyright itself.’” “合理使用的调查取决于每个案件的具体事实和用途，”美国律师在声明中写道，“但如果施加广泛的版权责任，导致在没有许可的情况下普遍禁止人工智能模型训练，那将是有问题的，也是法律上的错误。大语言模型训练‘符合版权本身的基本宪法目标，即创造性的进步’。”